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W. H. KING. STREET SWEEPER.

Patent-ed Alig. 19, 1856.

UNITED STATES PATENT orricn'.

WILLIAIVI H. KING, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM H. KING AND ISAAC HYNEMAN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

MACHINE FOR swnnrrive eu'r'rnns.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 15,566, dated August 19, 1856.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. KING, of the city and county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for SweepingGutters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part thereof, in which- Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the machine complete, and Fig. 2 represents a top plan.

Similar letters in the two figures denote like parts in both.

The nature of my invention relates to the sweeping of the sides or gutters of streets, by a machine so constructed that it will in moving forward in a direct line, convey the sweepings to one side of the machine, and

leave in it what is termed a windrow; and.

consists mainly in the location and operation of an inclined or oblique rotating brush, with a similarly inclined directing or controlling board, against which the sweepings are thrown by the brush which rotates from the swept to the unswept surface; the united action of said brush and directing board being to move the sweepings from the sides toward the center of the street, and'leave it in windrows.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the drawings.

A, B, represent a pair ofcarrying or supporting wheels, to which are connected the platform C, shafts D, and axleE, to form a carriage for supporting the sweeping and directing apparatus. On the wheel A of the pair of wheels, is placed a cogged wheel F, slightly beveled, so as to take into and turn a similarly beveled spur wheel G, on a shaft H, which is in rear of the axle E, and

stands at an inclination to said axle as shown in Fig. 2. On the shaft H, is a pulley I, around which and around a-pulley J, on the axis of the revolving brush K,

passes an endless chain or belt L, to give motion to the brush. i

The journals of the brush, are supported in the brackets M, which are so placed on the frame or carriage, as that the shaft of the brush shall stand oblique to the frame or parallel to the shaft H, from which it is.

. of the machine.

The brush revolves in the direction of the movement of the machine, and sweeps from the swept to the unswept surface, and cannot leave anything behind it. The board N moving with the machine recedes as it were from the sweepings thrown against it, and thus aids to direct the sweepings to the outside. If the brush ran in a direction contrary to that of the movement of the machine, then the board would have to be placed behind it, and it would then be advancing against the sweepings, and its tendency is in that position to hold the sweepings, and not direct them to the side of the machine. And by reversing the motion of the brush, it would then sweep from the unswept to the swept surface, and thus throw the dirt back over what had been previously swept. There is, therefore, much brush in the direction of the motion of the machine.

The brackets are so arranged, as that the journals of the cylinder brush, may be raised or lowered therein, to adjust the brush to the surface to be swept, and this may be done by the hand worm wheel a,

shaft 5, and suspension chains 0, or any other well known raising or lowering device.

cl, is a clutch pin, passing through aplate 6, firmly attached to the spokes of the wheel A, which said clutch pin is held in place by the catch f, taking into a groove in said pin. WVhen the machine is transported from place to place the pin (Z, is partially drawn out and there held, which disengages the wheel A, from the cog wheel F, and the machine will then move along without driving the brush. To connect the wheelsA, F, the clutch pin is forced in, so as to catch against wheels travel together.

Having thus fully described the nature of I or gutter sweeping machine, that Will leave my invention, What I claim therein as new the sweepings in Windrovvs, as set forth. and desire to secure 10 Letters Patent is- The combination oi the skewed revolving KING 5 brush and guiding board, arranged, located, Witnesses:

and operating together substantially as de- JNo. B. KENNEY, scribed, for the purpose of making a side, CHARLES THOMPSON. 

